I couldn’t stop thinking about that night we shared our first kiss in her room at Hugo’s estate. She looked at me and asked, “Hey, can I ask you something?”“So, like, what’s the deal with all this?” She nailed it, repeating exactly what I’d said.“It means savior,” I explained, my voice strained as tears welled up in my eyes.“And this one?” she asked, pointing again.“Dude,” I thought about the memory as it replayed right before my eyes. After so many losses, it gave me a fleeting spark of hope. “Hey, how can I assist you?” The room was eerily quiet, with only the crackling of the fire and her steady breathing breaking the silence. “You gotta have oxygen,” I added.“Sure,” she replied, giving me a closer look.“Is this okay?” I casually slid my arm between her knees as she nodded, then wrapped my other arm around her back. “You doing alright?”“Yeah,” she murmured softly. I lifted her from the ground and held her tightly. It was the comfort I had been craving, but I still longed for
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